Business Analytics in Lisbon

The SAP Business Intelligence forum in Lisbon, Portugal took place on May 17th, at the Bélem Cultural Center. The packed event kicked off with an introduction from the managing director of SAP Portugal, Paulo Carvalho. The ever-smiling Luisa Silva, in charge of Business Analytics sales in Lisbon, moderated the event. I gave the keynote — as usual, you can download my presentation in Adobe .pdf or Microsoft PowerPoint format. Next came... [Read More...]

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 and EIM 4.0 Key Themes

If you’re interested in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0, you’ll find below the official key messages of today’s launch, which give a great summary of what’s important about the latest release, for customers with and without SAP ERP systems. Big data in real-time Real-time analytics powered by In-memory computing In-Memory Analytics (SAP HANA) – In-memory hardware appliance that is lightning fast on massively high-volumes of data. Enables business... [Read More...]

Business Analytics on the Samsung Galaxy Tab

Earlier this week, I had a quick chance to use the new Samsung Galaxy Tab — the first serious tablet rival to the iPad — and check out its analytic / business intelligence capabilities. The device runs Android 2.2, which supports Adobe Flash, so the first thing I tried was a couple of dashboards suitable for executives on the run, built using BusinessObjects Dashboard (formerly Xcelsius). First, the same Formula 1 example that I previously... [Read More...]

ASUG SAP BusinessObjects User Conference 2010 Keynotes

It was the ASUG SAP BusinessObjects User Conference this week at the Walt Disney Dolphin hotel in Orlando Florida, with around 1600 people and 140+ sessions of BI goodness. The conference included customer presentations from Harley-Davidson, Pepsico, AT&T, Intuit, Allstate, T-Mobile, Disney, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Amtrack, and many others; partner presentations from companies including APOS, Mellmo (RoamBI), Antivia, Centigon Solutions, Infosol,... [Read More...]

Antivia Xcelsius Business Intelligence Dashboard with Web Intelligence Drill

In an earlier post, I showed you can use BusinessObjects products like Xcelsius, Explorer on a mobile phone, and drill through to Web Intelligence running on the bi.ondemand.com BI-in-the-cloud platform. This post takes things one step further, with the help of SAP BusinessObjects partner Antivia. They have a great add-on solution called XWIS that makes it easier to access real-time Web Intelligence (soon to be called “Interactive Analysis”)... [Read More...]

Xcelsius Dashboards on Your Android Mobile Phone

The latest release of Android, v2.2 (“Froyo”) supports the Adobe flash technology used by Xcelsius (now called Dashboard Design) and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. So now you can access your dashboards, reports, and exploration spaces directly from your mobile device without requiring a separate application (e.g. as you do for the iPhone and iPad). It also means you can reuse all the effort you’ve put into developing Xcelsius dashboards and... [Read More...]

BI in Brussels (Against Economic Turmoil)

I’m just returning from Brussels (actually, the new SAP Lounge venue at Vilvoorde), where I was invited to give the keynote presentation at a “Reporting and Business Intelligence Session” for SAP customers, on the theme of “How to use Business Intelligence to Counter Economic Turmoil.” (Side note: This post was composed and uploaded over the free wifi while traveling at around 190 miles an hour – I’m proud to be European!) Apart... [Read More...]